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How the trillion-dollar 'space economy' is threatened by debris
Updated On: 24 January, 2022 01:36 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
An Indian-American professor has stressed that while the space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, assets such as navigation, weather and communication satellites that serve our society daily are threatened by space debris
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The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, but assets such as navigation, weather and communication satellites that serve our society daily are threatened by space debris, an Indian-American professor has stressed.
According to NASA, it is estimated that millions of pieces of space debris orbit around Earth. A major portion of these objects as well as active satellites reside in the low-Earth orbit region, at altitudes between 200 km and 1,000 km.
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